Return to the deep dark wood with the brand new Gruffalo picture book from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

The Gruffalo said to his daughter one day,
"Your Gruffalo Granny is coming to stay."

The Gruffalo and the Gruffalo's Child are getting ready for a visit from Gruffalo Granny! Will they get the better of the little brown mouse this time and serve Granny a delicious bowl of mouse stew—or will Mouse manage to outwit them once again?

This joyful celebration of storytelling, wit, and bravery features the return of much-loved characters, including those from Room On The Broom, Monkey Puzzle, and The Snail And The Whale. As irresistibly funny and surprising as the previous enduring bestsellers—The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child—Gruffalo Granny deserves a place on every child's bookshelf and is destined to become a classic.

• By Julia Donaldson illustrated by Axel Scheffler
• 9781035065516
• 3-6 years
• 40 pages

About the author

Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books of the last thirty years, including bestselling modern classic The Gruffalo, which has been translated into over 100 languages and dialects, and its sequel The Gruffalo's Child. Her other books include Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and The Highway Rat, all illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Detective Dog and Gozzle, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, as well as poems, plays, and songs. She was the UK Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia lives in West Sussex, England.

Axel Scheffler was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1957. He studied art history in Hamburg, before moving to the United Kingdom to study illustration at Bath Academy of Art in 1982. Since then he has worked as a freelance illustrator in London. He is best known for the children's books he has illustrated through his partnership with author, Julia Donaldson. Their first book together, A Squash and a Squeeze, was published in 1993 and has sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. The duo then went on to create The Gruffalo, which has sold over 18 million copies, in 113 countries throughout the world. He lives in London.